A review by laurafigueiredo
City of the Saints by D.J. Butler
2.0
When I started reading this book, I inmediately thought of Cat Rambo's Altered America, because the setting is pretty much the same - and that was a disappointing fact.
Too "Wild Wild West" for my taste.
Also all the characters make turns to narrate their portion of the story, and jumping from one to another one in each chapter made me feel a bity dizzy.
But I must say that the author managed to provide a crystal clear characterization of each character, which helped a lot, so overall it was not a hard-to-follow kind of story.
By the way this is an action packed book.
Actually one of those stories which begin at a rather slow pace, but things start to happen fast and faster, until the very end when they get completely crazy. So the last chapters were so hard to believe that I kept frowning while I read them.
I think the author meant to hook the reader, but in my case it backfired.
So.
Not a bad book, just not the kind of book I like.
That's why the 2-stars rating ("it's ok") and not more (3 as "liked it").
Too "Wild Wild West" for my taste.
Also all the characters make turns to narrate their portion of the story, and jumping from one to another one in each chapter made me feel a bity dizzy.
But I must say that the author managed to provide a crystal clear characterization of each character, which helped a lot, so overall it was not a hard-to-follow kind of story.
By the way this is an action packed book.
Actually one of those stories which begin at a rather slow pace, but things start to happen fast and faster, until the very end when they get completely crazy. So the last chapters were so hard to believe that I kept frowning while I read them.
I think the author meant to hook the reader, but in my case it backfired.
So.
Not a bad book, just not the kind of book I like.
That's why the 2-stars rating ("it's ok") and not more (3 as "liked it").